UN Security Council to vote on ending Israeli settlement activity Draft text demands Israel “immediately and completely ceases settlement activities in occupied Palestinian territory”.
The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on a draft resolution that would demand Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the

The nomination of Antonio Guterres as next UN secretary-general came despite efforts by some politicians for the role to go to a woman, or to someone from eastern Europe. António Guterres is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is elected to serve as the ninth Secretary General of the United

Oman’s Foreign Ministry [official website, in Arabic] announced that it has accepted 10 detainees from Guantanamo Bay upon request from the Obama administration. However, there has been no official statement released by the US Defense Department [official website] on the transfer nor has the Oman Foreign Ministry released the names of the

On 14 March 2017, The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled for the first time that prohibition to wear visible political, philosophical or religious sign by an internal rule of company does not constitute direct discrimination. The facts of case as follows ; A Belgian Muslim woman Samira Achbita was

The death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern Syrian town rose to 72 on Wednesday as activists and rescue workers found more terrified survivors hiding in shelters near the site of the harrowing assault, one of the deadliest in Syria’s civil war.
According to a Syrian